Women's Visionary Council

This Giving Tuesday, we’re honoring the elders whose work shaped psychedelic history.

Many of these guides are aging, and their stories remain largely unwritten. The WVC's Elder Project preserves this wisdom while it can still be shared — in safety, dignity, and community.

If you feel called to support this work, we invite you to contribute to our year-end campaign.

🔗 Donate: https://www.every.org/womens-visionary-council/f/2025-end-of-year-cam

With gratitude,
The Women’s Visionary Council

🌹 Tomorrow! ✨
Join the Women’s Visionary Council for "A Day of Remembering: Honoring Psychedelic History" — a gathering to honor elders, ancestors, and the visionaries whose lives have shaped our collective journey.

📅 Saturday, November 1 | 1–5 PM
📍 The Berkeley Alembic

✨ In-person + online | Recording sent to all registrants
🎟 Sliding scale $25–$250
👉 Register: bit.ly/DayOfRemembering

🌟 One Week Away! 🌟

Since 2007, the Women’s Visionary Council has been amplifying the voices of women in the psychedelic movement — healers, researchers, artists, and spiritual leaders — who for too long were not being heard.

Rooted in intergenerational collaboration and community, the WVC creates spaces for connection, storytelling, and transformation.

Join us next Saturday, November 1 (1–5 PM) at The Berkeley Alembic for "A Day of Remembering: Honoring Psychedelic History" — a gathering to honor elders, ancestors & the visionaries who have helped shape where we are now.

✨ This event is in-person + streamed online. A recording will be sent to everyone who registers.

🎟 Sliding scale $25–$250
👉 Register here: bit.ly/DayOfRemembering

🌿 Honoring the lineage of visionary women who came before us.

The Women’s Visionary Council at the memorial for Ann Shulgin, held at the Zellerbach Auditorium.

Ann’s life and work remind us of the courage, creativity, and compassion that continue to guide our community.

Join us on Saturday, November 1 at The Berkeley Alembic for Day of Remembering — a gathering to honor the elders, ancestors, and visionaries who shaped psychedelic history.

✨ This event is in-person and streamed online. A video recording will be sent to everyone who registers.

🎟 Sliding scale $25–$250
👉 bit.ly/DayOfRemembering

✨ Day of Remembering ✨

Please join the Women’s Visionary Council on Saturday, Nov 1st (1–5 pm) at The Berkeley Alembic for an afternoon of honoring elders, ancestors, and the visionaries who shaped psychedelic history.

Featuring Susannah Cahalan, Alicia Danforth, Roger Walsh, and a special guest.

🎟 Sliding scale $25–$250
👉 Register here: https://bit.ly/DayOfRemembering

✨ Day of Remembering ✨
Join the Women’s Visionary Council on Saturday, Nov 1 at the Berkeley Alembic for an afternoon of honoring elders, ancestors, and the visionaries who shaped psychedelic history.

With Susannah Cahalan, Alicia Danforth, Roger Walsh, and a special guest!

📍 Alembic, Berkeley | 1–5 pm
🎟 Sliding scale $25–$250
👉 Register here: https://bit.ly/DayOfRemembering

Come celebrate, remember, and connect.

Friday, October 10, 2025, is the deadline of the HalfMyDAF initiative.

If you donated through a donor-advised fund, please consider nominating the Women's Visionary Council for a matching grant by clicking here: https://www.halfmydaf.com/.

✨ Enjoy lectures, comedy, art, music, and more with the Women’s Visionary Council — in honor of Women Pioneers in History.

🚋 Tram Day is a new annual holiday created to honor Susi Ramstein — the first woman to take L*D — and to celebrate the powerful, often unacknowledged role of women in this movement.

For 40 years, Bicycle Day has celebrated Dr. Hofmann’s famous first trip.
But what about the woman who accompanied him — his lab assistant, the first guide?

🌟 Join us on Saturday, June 14 at The Alembic in Berkeley from 1–6 p.m.
for an afternoon of remembrance, reverence, and renewal.

This gathering includes:
🎤 A talk by Maria Mangini on Susi Ramstein and the origins of Tram Day
📖 A featured lecture + Q&A:
“The Daughters of Eleusis” by Ayize Jama-Everett,
whose talk invites us into a decolonized, community-centered approach to healing (see below 👇)
🎭 A comedic “newscast” by Annie Oak
🎨 Visionary Postcards: Messages to the Future
🖼️ A photo booth with a tram backdrop
💫 Silent auction, awards, WVC merch
🎶 Live music jam + social time

🌀 Ayize Jama-Everett’s talk dives deep into:
• The suppressed history of the Eleusinian Mysteries, led by post-menopausal women over 2,000 years ago
• How psychedelics were central to rites of passage rooted in the rhythms of women’s bodies, seasons, and souls
• Patriarchal erasure—from Theodosius to the Enlightenment
• Why the modern psychedelic renaissance risks repeating this exclusion
• The call to heal through community, ritual, and reverence for “the divine darkness”

“I only journey with women over fifty, connected to the land.”

This is not a gentle stroll through history.
It’s a fire-walk through 4,000 years of erasure, reclamation, and radical imagination.

🎟️ Tickets: $25–$125 sliding scale
No one turned away for lack of funds
🔗 Link in bio to register

🫶 Presented by the Women’s Visionary Council,
a nonprofit amplifying women’s voices in healing, visionary culture, and community transformation since 2007.

For the last 40 years, Bicycle Day has celebrated Dr. Hofmann’s historic first L*D trip, yet the role of his laboratory assistant – the woman who accompanied him on that journey as the first psychedelic guide –has often gone unacknowledged. We invite you to join the Women’s Visionary Council in celebrating Tram Day, a new annual event, honoring Susi Ramstein, whose courageous experiment as the first woman to take L*D, led to her eventful tram ride home on June 12,1943. Tram Day marks a lesser-known but pivotal moment in psychedelic history. This year, we’re honored to feature Ayize Jama-Everett—writer, therapist, theologian, and filmmaker—who will lead us through a myth-shattering, soul-realigning journey into the forgotten matriarchal lineages of Western entheogenic practice. #tramday #eleusis #womenswisdom #plantmedicine #earthrhythms #psychedelichistory #1sttrip #history #culture #visionary #visionarycouncil